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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have experience with ADHD but I have lots of experience with swimming. It might just be that your kid swims faster in the evenings. I was faster at night. Whenever I swam in meets with a morning prelims/evening finals format my goal was just to get into the final knowing I would drop time at night. The difference was significant for me. Before I figured out what I needed to do to swim well enough in the morning, I would be in the consolation finals and swim a time that would’ve been top 3 or 4 in the final heat… very frustrating.

My own child does not have ADHD but they were significantly faster at the evening B meet than the morning A meet this week. I could tell during warmups that he looked tired. Maybe it’s just how some of us are wired. Swimming uses every muscle and everything needs to be firing in order to swim fast. [/quote]

That could very well be it too. Normally, my kid is a morning person who has boundless energy the moment his eyes open, but jumping in cold-ish water that early is another thing entirely. Could be a combo of things. We'll try giving the medication later in the morning and see if it helps.[/quote]

Yeah my kid is generally a morning person too but I do think jumping in cold water is different from just about anything else. I know I am less flexible in the morning, especially in cold water, and that is a big part of swimming. If he's still young it might be hard for him to just mentally push through less than optimal conditions. Hopefully we are done with the cold water days now that we will have consistently warm temps this week. But definitely worth playing with the timing of the meds, even if it does nothing other than make him feel better.[/quote]

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